When mr. pontellier learned of his wife's intention to abandon her home and take up her residence elsewhere, he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance. she had given reasons which he was unwilling to acknowledge as adequate. he hoped she had not acted upon her rash impulse; and he begged her to consider first, foremost, and above all else, what people would say.
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the pigeon house her. it at once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected like a warm glow. there was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual. every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.

based on these excerpts, it can be inferred that

a. mr. pontellier has been faithful, while his wife has not been faithful.
b. mr. pontellier is much more practical than his wife.
c. edna will be happier than her husband once the house is remodeled.
d. edna is much less concerned about public opinion than her husband.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.